Survivor Elizabeth Smart on removing shame and teaching proper anatomical body terms as a critical safety measure to protect children from added trauma in the worst-case scenario.

Sex education was introduced so that children would know when they were being abused. Remember the doll? “Where on the doll did he touch you?” Sex education allows the children to know where they shouldn’t be touched.

Not only does MAGA want to get rid of sex education, but they want unqualified pastors to work as guidance counselors

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson……

https://bsky.app/profile/jlray.bsky.social/post/3m2hgeiau5k2x?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

There have been more claims of abuse in the various Southern Baptist churches since 1990 than in the Catholic Church WORLDWIDE. It’s just been widely covered up.

Robert Morris is the 6th megachurch pastor from Texas to resign from their post since 2024 due to sexual assault claims. 6 in a year.

He was the former spiritual advisor to Trump. Trump’s current spiritual advisor is selling absolution right out of her faith office in the WH.

Her past isn’t all that great either. She’s actually more of a serial adulteress than Trump. We can only hope that all of her relationships have been between consensual adults. Not that incels who think Trump has implied consent know what consent means.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/abuse-of-faith/

The former pastor of the Summit Church in Elkins is facing a new felony charge after police allegedly found sexually explicit content involving a juvenile on his cellphone,

https://www.theintermountain.com/news/local-news/2025/10/pastor-facing-new-child-pornography-felony-charge/

Congress should pass a law that says that no child should be left alone with any religious person that isn’t their direct family members. Religious leaders are more of a threat to our kids than any trans person ever did.

I appreciate her so much, she’s done awesome advocacy work

my mom told me when I was little (5ish) that there are adults with a sickness in their head that makes them want to touch or look at a kid’s privates so I needed to tell her if anyone ever tries to do that to me. I was like, “Ok.” I didn’t ask questions, I accepted that and it didn’t fuck me up. The same way I accepted that a stranger might try to trick me into getting into their car for candy, and I should run away and tell an adult. You can talk to your kids about these things without going into explicit details. Parents are so afraid that kids are going to ask a million questions, but they usually just accept the information.

edit: she had already taught me what my private parts are (including the word vagina) and that I wasn’t allowed to touch anyone’s and no one was allowed to touch mine and that’s why they were “private” parts.

A big part of this is the way that social media platforms have manipulated people into using terms like sa instead of the full term which is sexual assault and/or rape. Those couched terms remove the ugliness of the act which does no service to the victims and it has bled over into people’s day to day speech. Facism takes language away from the public, don’t forget that and don’t give into it.

I grew up with the names of anatomical body parts. It is so important to both prevent abuse and help when reporting abuse. I work with students with disabilities that need toileting support and I think it so important to use correct language to both provide dignity and to prevent abuse

I feel really strongly about this and I hope that this interview will encourage parents to teach the correct terms to their children. In a medical setting, it’s also so important to be able to say where you have an issue. I’d be even more embarrassed going to the doctor and NOT using the anatomical terms for my body. I have four year old twins daughters and we have always used the anatomical terms for their bodies. I didn’t grow up that way, and I think it does a real disservice to girls in particular. So many women use the word vagina to describe their vulva, and that’s something we need to push back on too. If women don’t even know/use the correct terminology for their body parts, then that is an issue that needs to be addressed. We can’t advocate effectively for ourselves if we don’t use the correct terms.

Stop with the damn swipe transitions! Especially to show this dude saying, “yeah.” It’s taking away from Elizabeth’s story and her speaking. Just a patriarchal microaggression.

Part of my sixth grade teaching respnsibilites for a few years was sex education for that grade/age. I spent the first part of the first class discussing the fact that I would be using proper, scientific names and words for body parts and other subjects. I did my best to explain how and why this was important, and that it was not “taboo” to use these words.

The first few times the kids said ‘penis’ and ‘vagina’ and ‘breasts,’ as well as ‘intercourse,’ ‘anal,’ ‘testicles,’ etc. elicited the usual laughs and giggles. By the next lesson, the snickers were few and far between. By week 3, scientific terms were being used by everyone.

Apparently, as I was to later find out, I was unique in my lessons, as I was confronted by my administrators after the two-weeks of instruction has passed. I was reamed (no pun intended) for using these words, as well as answering questions from the kids with truth and facts, rather than skirting the topics with generalities or just saying “I don’t know.” Pushing back got me removed from the Sex Ed rotation.

it seems that she’s also left mormonism. i’m super proud of her for what she does and how far she’s come.